Sundance Film Festival 2025: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews​on January 24, 2025 at 2:00 am

While the Sundance Film Festival mulls a big move for 2027, the 2025 is under way. The event’s 41st edition kicked off January 23 in Utah, and you can look below for all of Deadline’s reviews from the fest so far.

Sundance founder Robert Redford promised that audiences “can expect a 2025 program that showcases varied and vibrant filmmaking globally.” Running through February 2, the lineup includes more than 85 features and six episodic projects set to screen in Park City, Salt Lake City and online.

Below is a compilation of our reviews from the fest, which last year awarded its U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury prize to Alessandra Lacorazza’s In the Summers. Click on the movie’s title to read our full take.

Section: Premieres
Director: Sophie Hyde
Screenwriters: Sophie Hyde, Matthew Cormack
Cast: Olivia Colman, John Lithgow, Aud Mason-Hyde, Daniel Henshall, Kate Box, Eamon Farren, Zoe Love Smith, Romana Vrede, Hans Kesting
Deadline’s takeaway: Above all else, Jimpa first and foremost is about family. The film belongs to Lithgow, who gets one of his best outings in recent years as a self-centered man determined to do things his way, no matter the cost, but still with a loving heart.

Section: Dramatic Competition
Director: Cole Webley
Screenwriter: Robert Machoian
Cast: John Magaro, Molly Belle Wright, Wyatt Solis, Talia Balsam
Deadline’s takeaway: In this family road-trip pic set during the 2008 financial crisis, one disturbing sequence after another is played out on the morose face of John Magaro, who is clearly keeping the truth from them — and us — of what this journey is actually all about.